A Cognitive Semiotic Perspective on Gestural Meaning-Making: Phenomenological Triangulation, Embodiment, and Consciousness
The paper presents a cognitive semiotic perspective on spontaneous gesturing (or singular gestures), understood as spontaneous co-speech embodied activity, devoid of linguistic properties, and not conforming to social conventions. In line with the cognitive-semiotic attitude, the paper addresses the...
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| description | The paper presents a cognitive semiotic perspective on spontaneous gesturing (or singular gestures), understood as spontaneous co-speech embodied activity, devoid of linguistic properties, and not conforming to social conventions. In line with the cognitive-semiotic attitude, the paper addresses the so far underexplored methodological issue of complementing third-person methods of gesture studies with first- and second-person perspectives on speech and gesturing in line with phenomenological triangulation. Merleau-Ponty’s ideas presented in Phenomenology of Perception are the starting point for the exploration of aspects of a phenomenological view of gestural meaning-making. Gesturing, as a meaning-making activity, is analyzed in terms of embodied accomplishment of meaning. Gestural bodily activity is subsequently analyzed in terms of pre-reflective self-consciousness and reflective self-consciousness. The paper is intended as a contribution to studies on the phenomenology of gesturing, with perspectives for further research sketched in the concluding section. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3c33166756604859adc6c778ac8ec8e02025-01-20T11:10:12ZengSciendoStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric2199-60592024-12-01691577410.2478/slgr-2024-0012A Cognitive Semiotic Perspective on Gestural Meaning-Making: Phenomenological Triangulation, Embodiment, and ConsciousnessKonderak Piotr0Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Lublin, Lublin, PolandThe paper presents a cognitive semiotic perspective on spontaneous gesturing (or singular gestures), understood as spontaneous co-speech embodied activity, devoid of linguistic properties, and not conforming to social conventions. In line with the cognitive-semiotic attitude, the paper addresses the so far underexplored methodological issue of complementing third-person methods of gesture studies with first- and second-person perspectives on speech and gesturing in line with phenomenological triangulation. Merleau-Ponty’s ideas presented in Phenomenology of Perception are the starting point for the exploration of aspects of a phenomenological view of gestural meaning-making. Gesturing, as a meaning-making activity, is analyzed in terms of embodied accomplishment of meaning. Gestural bodily activity is subsequently analyzed in terms of pre-reflective self-consciousness and reflective self-consciousness. The paper is intended as a contribution to studies on the phenomenology of gesturing, with perspectives for further research sketched in the concluding section.https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2024-0012cognitive semioticsspontaneous gesturingphenomenologymerleau-pontyembodimentpre-reflective self-consciousnessphenomenological triangulation |
| spellingShingle | Konderak Piotr A Cognitive Semiotic Perspective on Gestural Meaning-Making: Phenomenological Triangulation, Embodiment, and Consciousness Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric cognitive semiotics spontaneous gesturing phenomenology merleau-ponty embodiment pre-reflective self-consciousness phenomenological triangulation |
| title | A Cognitive Semiotic Perspective on Gestural Meaning-Making: Phenomenological Triangulation, Embodiment, and Consciousness |
| title_full | A Cognitive Semiotic Perspective on Gestural Meaning-Making: Phenomenological Triangulation, Embodiment, and Consciousness |
| title_fullStr | A Cognitive Semiotic Perspective on Gestural Meaning-Making: Phenomenological Triangulation, Embodiment, and Consciousness |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Cognitive Semiotic Perspective on Gestural Meaning-Making: Phenomenological Triangulation, Embodiment, and Consciousness |
| title_short | A Cognitive Semiotic Perspective on Gestural Meaning-Making: Phenomenological Triangulation, Embodiment, and Consciousness |
| title_sort | cognitive semiotic perspective on gestural meaning making phenomenological triangulation embodiment and consciousness |
| topic | cognitive semiotics spontaneous gesturing phenomenology merleau-ponty embodiment pre-reflective self-consciousness phenomenological triangulation |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2024-0012 |
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